{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Can America’s Favorite Pastime How can relations between the United States and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un improve? Former President Trump joked this weekend that it might help.
At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, Trump defended the close relationships he has developed with hostile world leaders like the North Korean Dictator during his presidency.
Former President Trump speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
“A lot of them didn’t like what I was doing to them, but they also knew it was time. The game was over, right? It was time,” Trump said at the rally, which came just a week after he survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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“I have a good relationship with all of them,” Trump continued. “That’s a good thing. You know, the press often says, ‘He gets along with Kim Jong-un. North Korea has a lot of nuclear weapons.’ I get along with them very well. You’ve never been in danger with me as president. That’s a good thing to get along with, not a bad thing.”
Trump then joked that to combat Kim Jong-un’s obsession with nuclear weapons, he had proposed a hypothetical baseball outing featuring the New York Yankees.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}President Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi on February 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
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“I said, ‘Why don’t you do something else? All he wants to do is buy nuclear weapons and build them.’ I said, ‘Relax. Calm down. You’ve had enough. You’ve got so many nuclear weapons, so many.’ I said, ‘Relax, go see a good baseball game.’ I’ll show you what a baseball game is. We’ll go see the Yankees or we’ll come see Michigan in their home opener.”
The unlikely invitation comes amid a tough two weeks for the Yankees. New York has lost 19 of its last 28 games, including a 9-1 defeat to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Yankees’ Juan Soto celebrates with teammate Aaron Judge after scoring a run against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium on July 19, 2024, in New York. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
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“We still have days where we score a lot and we’re getting there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Saturday’s loss. “We’ve got to get there now with what we have and try to put things together. The reality is we’ve got some good stuff going on with guys … we’ve got enough stuff to get there.”
The Yankees will face the Rays on Sunday in Game 3 of their four-game series.
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